If you'd like to bake bread, but can't spare the time waiting for the dough to rise, try some of the book's quick bread recipes -- English Shortbread, Cranberry-Nut, Pecan or Irish Beer Bread or Little Fruit Breads.

To obtain "Tasty Treats from the Troops," send your name and address and a check for $8.50 to Veterans of the Vietnam War Inc., Post PA-54, P.O. Box 218, Northampton 18067-0218. Proceeds from the 98-page book will be donated to the Brandie Schieb Children's Fund, which helps children with birth defects believed to have resulted from a parent's exposure to Agent Orange (dioxin.)

When you want to sink your teeth into a luscious dessert, make the Chocolate Raspberry Truffles or one of the following cakes: Apple-Macaroon, Chocolate Swirl, Mandarin Orange, Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip or post Adjutant Mary Ann Dewalt's Amazin' Apple-Raisin Cake.

Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans. In large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat first 10 ingredients for two minutes, scraping frequently. Batter will be very thick. Stir in apples, raisins and nuts by hand. Spoon batter into pans. Bake in 350 degrees oven for 45 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes. Remove. Cool again before filling and frosting with two cups whipped cream.

NOTE: Dewalt baked the cake in a greased and floured bundt pan, added about 10 minutes to the baking time and dusted it with confectioner's sugar.

If your local nonprofit group has compiled a cookbook you would like to see reviewed in this column, send us a copy of the book along with information on how readers can obtain it. We'll also need the name and phone number of a person whom we can contact for more information.